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Monday, June 29, 2009

Saturday morning was already going to be an extremely busy morning but the kids had asked me on Friday to please make pancakes in the morning. I said yes remembering I wanted to create an oatmeal pancake recipe. Sure enough early Saturday morning came and as soon as I remembered my obligation and realized I had not planned ahead, I ran to Martha Stewart online for a recipe. The first recipe that popped up is 'Cinnamon-Oat Pancakes' so off we went to the kitchen.

Since I rarely find myself following a recipe exactly and I am always try to up the nutritional content in some way, I opted to vary the recipe by using 1 cup of unbleached organic flour to 1 cup of organic whole wheat flour. I then followed the recipe to a 'T'. The result was tasty and the kids enjoyed them however, I think they would have been less dense if I had cut the oats down to 1 cup.

Do you like your pancakes light and fluffy? If yes, then follow her instructions and see how they come out but I have to wonder: Which is better nutritionally? To use all AP flour with all the oats called for OR use some whole wheat flour but cut down on the oats?

15 comments:

These sound pretty good! I have been making the same (all white flour, no oats) pancakes forever and I find them flat so I have been looking for something that will give me thick pancakes. Light would be nice, but dense gives you something to sink your teeth into for a hearty meal!

I must try these... I love the fact that you try to make everything a little more nutritious!I tend to think your version would be a little more nutritious seeing that you used whole wheat flour even if you cut down the oats.

I love pancakes. Period. Doesn't matter if they're fluffy/thin, light/dense - I will eat them. Wish I could help out on the nutrition question! One tip: I have started using club soda in place of the liquid in pancake recipes. It cuts down on kcals from milk and it (seems to) add to the fluffiness.